Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration in Washington

What the 81.121–Washington join is

CFDA 81.121 is titled NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION. Crossed with Washington place of performance, obligations sum to $985,179,326 on 5 awards. The national nuclear R&D hub includes other states. Washington’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $985,179,326 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of reactors at Hanford or in Richland.

Five awards is a concentrated R&D pattern: DOE nuclear research often posts as a small number of large assistance or cooperative-agreement instruments. The join does not name national labs, list demonstration projects, or count megawatts. Packet facts stop at $985,179,326, 5 awards, WA, and 81.121. Correlation is not causation.

81.121 is not environmental cleanup

Hanford cleanup and other DOE environmental catalogs use different CFDA numbers. Mixing those into $985,179,326 would invent a broader DOE total than this cell contains. Facts available: Washington, CFDA 81.121, $985,179,326, 5 awards. Reactor types, TRL levels, and lab names are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration, not a ranking of generating capacity. Dividing $985,179,326 by 5 yields about $197.04 million per award—a large R&D-instrument scale. Unique recipients are unpublished. 5 is not a count of reactors.

Questions

How much nuclear energy R&D funding is obligated in Washington?

USAspending records $985,179,326 in CFDA 81.121 obligations with Washington place of performance on 5 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not DOE cleanup. Keep Nuclear Energy Research, Development And Demonstration and Washington together when citing $985,179,326.

Does 5 awards mean 5 reactors?

5 is a USAspending award-record count, not a reactor census. The implied mean is about $197.04 million per award. Unique recipients and project names are unpublished. 5 is a record count, not a person or facility census. The overlay is the live Nuclear Energy Research, Development And Demonstration–Washington table.

Is this Washington’s total federal energy spend?

No. $985,179,326 is only the 81.121 × Washington cell. Other DOE catalogs appear on separate Washington program pages. Nationwide 81.121 is not limited to Washington. Obligations of $985,179,326 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Nuclear Energy Research, Development And Demonstration–Washington table.

Do these obligations equal electricity generated?

No. $985,179,326 is an obligation sum for research, development, and demonstration. Outlays are a different series. Megawatt-hours are not in the packet facts. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 81.121 × WA pair. The overlay is the live Nuclear Energy Research, Development And Demonstration–Washington table.